The Federal Reserve is appalled that we’re not spending enough to further inflate the value of its corporate and banking cronies. In the Fed’s eyes, your reason for being is to channel whatever income you have to the Fed’s private-sector…
Ridding the world of Monsanto via a state buy-out would be a boon to humanity. Capitalism fails in two situations: monopoly and state-capital cronyism. Monopoly extinguishes competition and that effectively extinguishes capitalism. When the elites of the state and private…
‘George Osborne signalled the start of the biggest ever sell-off of public assets in a speech to the CBI business conference last night. The Chancellor said the government would raise more than £23billion this year […]
‘The F-35 is the most expensive weapons program in history, with a total cost of $1.5 trillion, that has turned into a total fiasco. So here is an 8-minute documentary (with some cool footage of […]
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that whenever you hear the term “public-private” partnership, brace yourself for a screw job of epic proportions. It’s in exactly the same vein as the classic observation uttered by the late…
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that whenever you hear the term “public-private” partnership, brace yourself for a screw job of epic proportions. It’s in exactly the same vein as the classic observation uttered by the late…
Billions of gallons contaminated ‘As California lawmakers decide if resident ‘water wasters’ should face jail time as a drought strikes the state, water agencies are busy working on higher rates and fees to penalize individual […]
‘“In March 2012 when the economy was still in the very early stages of recovery we wanted to do a very big increase in the personal allowance to put a lot of money back into […]
In so many ways, Warren Buffett and modern America are the same thing. An idea packaged and marketed so brilliantly, most of humanity unquestionably believes the myth. Warren Buffett and the U.S. both sell themselves as encompassing the very best of…
‘George Osborne’s tax giveaway for millionaires has saved them an astonishing £85,000 each – while the average family has been left £1,100 a year worse off. The out-of-touch Chancellor’s decision to slash the top rate […]
‘One in five of the businesspeople who signed a letter supporting Tory economic policy were given honours by David Cameron in the last few years, while one third have donated money to the Conservative party, […]
‘A Tory MP has landed an £800-an-hour job at the same firm he had lavished praise on while working a transport minister, according to a Labour MP. Stephen Hammond took the role with Inmarsat, which […]
‘David Cameron has expressed his “full confidence” in Grant Shapps, the Conservative Party Chairman, after it emerged he continued to pursue business interests under a pseudonym for more than a year after becoming an MP. […]
‘David Cameron is clearly determined to go to any lengths to avoid a head-to-head debate with Ed Miliband. I know one of the reasons why: he is terrified of being held to account for his […]